Definition of "vagabond"

vagabond

/ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/

noun
plural vagabonds
1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
  Quotations
  When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 4:12
  "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."
  1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
  Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Noveria
verb
third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded
1. To roam, as a vagabond
adjective
not comparable
1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  Quotations
  To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
  1959, Jack London, The Star Rover

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